CONTENTS

1. CordellMedhi_2024_TransnationalRepression.R = R code used to produce all tables and figures in the manuscript and appendix.

2. CordellMedhi_2024_TransnationalRepression.csv = 210,714 directed dyad-years, representing all independent states in the world from 2014-2020. This includes a sample of 33,615 directed dyad-years including only those host countries that have admitted refugees or asylum seekers from the origin country that year according to annual refugee flow data from the UNHCR (2022).

- country_name1: Name of the potential host country.
      
- country_name2: Name of the potential origin country.
        
- ccode1: Correlates of War numeric code for the potential host country.
               
- ccode2: Correlates of War numeric code for the potential origin country.
               
- iso3c1: ISO3 character code for the potential host country.
               
- iso3c2: ISO3 character code for the potential origin country.
              - year: Year.
                 
- tr_count_all: Count of transnational repression instances for a directed dyad-year including assassinations or assassination attempts, assaults, detentions, renditions, unlawful deportations, and unexplained disappearances according to Freedom House (2021)'s Transnational Repression Database.
         
- tr_count_det_ren_dep: Count of transnational repression instances for a directed dyad-year including detentions, renditions, and unlawful deportations only according to Freedom House (2021).
 
- tr_count_political: Count of transnational repression instances for a directed dyad-year excluding instances of transnational repression where it was less clear that the incident was orchestrated by the origin country and had a political motive according to Freedom House (2021).
   
- tr_count_terror: Count of transnational repression instances for a directed dyad-year excluding instances where the targeted individuals are accused of terrorism and/or extremism according to Freedom House (2021).
      
- tr_count_interpol: Count of transnational repression instances for a directed dyad-year including instances where an Interpol red notice, diffusion request, or extradition request contributed to the transnational repression incident according to Freedom House (2021).
       
- rol_inverse: Country-year rule of law measure for a potential host country using Kaufmann, Kray and Mastruzzi (2010)’s Worldwide Governance Indicators data. We reverse the scale of the rule of law index to create an inverse variable.
 
- trade_total_log: Natural logarithm of a directed-dyad year total imports and exports using the International Monetary Fund (2023)'s Direction of Trade Statistics data.
         
- alliance: Dummy variable coded "1" if the directed-dyad year has a formal military alliance, and "0" otherwise using Leeds, Ritter, Mitchell and Long (2002)'s Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) data. 
             
- refugees: Count of a potential host country’s refugee population size from a potential origin country in a given year using annual refugee flow data from the UNHCR (2022).
             
- refugees_log: Natural logarithm of the count of a potential host country’s refugee population size from a potential origin country in a given year using UNHCR (2022)'s Forced Displacement Flow Dataset.
         
- min_dist_log: Natural logarithm of the minimum distance between a potential host country and a potential origin country in km using Weidmann, Kuse, and Gleditsch (2010)'s CShapes Dataset.
        - democracy: Dummy variable coded "1" if a potential host country is a democracy in a given year, and "0" otherwise using Geddes, Wright and Frantz (2014) and Chin, Wright and Carter (2021) data.
            
- state_capac: Country-year state capacity measure for a potential host country using the “Government Effectiveness” index from Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi (2010)'s Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) dataset.
          
- gdppc_log: Natural logarithm of a potential host country's gross domestic product divided by it's population in a given year using the World Bank (2023) World Development Indicators (WDI) dataset.
            
- pop_log: Natural logarithm of a potential host country's population size in a given year using the World Bank (2023) data.
              
- right_orient: Dummy variable coded "1" if a potential host country has a right wing government in office in a given year, and "0" otherwise using Cruz, Keefer and Scartascini (2021)'s Database of Political Institutions.
         
- civ_lib: Country-year civil liberties measure for a potential host country using Coppedge et al. (2021)'s Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data.
             - orign_country_past: Country-year dummy variable coded "1" if a potential host country has been an origin country themselves in the past, and "0" otherwise according to Freedom House (2021).
   
- press_freedom: Country-year press freedom measure for a potential host country using the Reporters Without Borders (2022b)'s World Press Freedom Index data.   